Author: Raminder Bhrara

AD Delegated Authentication is a way to synchronise user passwords between an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory enterprise directory structure and Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS). Users can use their AD passwords to sign in to IDCS to access resources and applications protected by Oracle IDCS. We will use Office365 as one of the target applications. Oracle IDCS can provision user into Office365 and keep users synchronised.

Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) protects Oracle IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and On-Premises applications. Oracle IDCS provides federated single-sign on experience to its clients. It follows open standards such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0. In the federation model, Oracle IDCS can either act as an Identity Provider (IdP) or a Service Provider (SP) or both.

Oracle IDCS has a built-in feature that provides multiple social identity providers such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. It uses underlying OAuth 2.0 protocol to interact with the Social Identity providers. This article presents how to configure IDCS to allow for Social Logins. Let me explain this concept with the sequence diagram below:

Background and Introduction

Targeted cyber intrusions remain the biggest threat to government ICT systems. Since opening in early 2010, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has detected and responded to thousands of these intrusions. These attacks are dealing with the Zero-Day exploits, DoS, DDoS, SQL Injections, Phishing, Ransomware, Large XML payloads and many other innovative attacks on IT systems.

You should never assume that your information is of little or no value. Adversaries are not just looking for classified information. A lot of activity observed by the ACSC has an economic focus, looking for information about Australia’s business dealings, its intellectual property, its scientific data and the government’s intentions.

The advent of cloud has challenged the traditional Security Operations Centres because users are outside the traditional network boundaries and they are using channels such as Mobile and Social. Modern IT Security attacks therefore become unpredictable. They are not carried out by humans but mobile devices or IoT Botnets. These attacks are adaptive in nature that remain dormant for some time waiting for an event to happen. These Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) in the Kill Chain process are inevitable and unpredictable.

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